Life and Residences: He was born and raised in Dubois
County, Indiana until he was 9 years when the family moved to
Page County, Iowa. In 1880, at the age of 21, James was
living with and work on the farm of the John Leggett family in
Nebraska township, Page County, Iowa. James, Lillian and two children moved
to Kansas from Iowa by train in 1890. They settled in
Belmont Township, Phillips County where James farmed.

Residences: When she was a small child she moved with
her family to Virginia where the lived until her father died in
1879. They returned to Futhrie County, Iowa after June 3,
1880, date of the census, to make
their home. After her mother died in 1881, she was
responsible for the care of her five younger children when she
was 15 years old. After her marriage to James Damewood in
1884, they continued to live in Iowa till 1890 when the family
moved to Phillips County, Kansas near Speed.

Religion: Methodist

Burial : Prairie View Cemetery, Logan, Phillips County, Kansas.

Children of James Harvey Damewood and Lillian Bolton

Twin sons died in infancy.

Effie Mable Damewood
was born
January 10, 1887 in
Clarinda, Page County, Iowaand died on
February 22, 1963 in
Phillipsburg, Phillips County, Kansas. She married
Albert Swanson on November 27,1912 in
Phillipsburg.

Jessie Madrid Damewood
was born
March 29, 1888
in
Clarinda, Page County, Iowa and died on
November 15, 1969 in
Marietta,
Georgia. She married
Joseph Patton on October 2, 1910.

Zona Minerva Damewood
was
May 13, 1890 in
rural Big Bend (Speed),
Phillips County, Kansas and died on
May 30, 1973 in Phillipsburg, Phillips County,
Kansas. She married
Cifric Swanson on October 13, 1913.

Alta Louisa Damewood
was born
March 24, 1892 in
rural Speed, Phillips County, Kansas
and died
January 20, 1964 in Norton, Norton County, Kansas.

(For details follow link on name.)

Ivory Ellsworth Damewood
was born
February
22, 1894 in
rural Big Bend (Speed),
Phillips County, Kansas and died on
March 18, 1973 in
Stockton, Rooks County, Kansas. He married
Ida Griffin September 30, 1931 in Phillipsburg, Kansas.

Ora Heaton Damewood
was born
August
22, 1896in
Big Bend (Speed), Phillips
County, Kansas and died on
September 15, 1954 in
Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. He married
Sadie Francis on November 21, 1929.

Orville Bertram Damewood
was born
August 19, 1898 in
Big Bend (Speed) and
died on
April 14, 1983 in
Logan, Phillips County, Kansas.

Ora Heaton Damewood
was born
August
22, 1896in
Big Bend (Speed), Phillips
County, Kansas and died on
September 15, 1954 in
Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. He married
Sadie Francis on November 21, 1929.

Eva Pearl Damewood
was born
July 3, 1900in
Big Bend (Speed), Phillips
County, Kansas and died on
May 24, 1924. She married Ira Ray
September 8, 1922.

James William Damewood
was born
October 30, 1903in
Big Bend (Speed), Phillips
County, Kansas and died on
July 18, 1965 in
Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. He married
Emma Francis on May 28, 1923.

Olla "Ollie" Emeline Damewood
was born
March 18, 1908in
Big Bend (Speed), Phillips
County, Kansas and died on
January 15, 1985. See married
William "Bill" Earl Reynolds on December
4, 1935.

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